There are no more excuses--"they" know. Ten years ago,
"our" politicians could have claimed ignorance of all
of the things enumerated below because, well, that was then. Now
there cannot be one politician alive who can claim ignorance to
the U.S. sovereignty-usurping machines that are being employed
to destroy our country. Just think what would happen at the
polls next November if all of the state Republican caucuses
would adopt the following party platform.

The Republican Party of Texas approved its 1998 party platform
at its biannual convention in Houston last month. Mary Rakowski
of the American Heritage Party of Idaho stated that her party
"could not have said it any better."

With over 7,500 voting delegates in attendance at the
convention, the Texas Republican Party platform calls for the
"abolition of federal agencies involved in activities not
delegated to the federal government under the original intent of
the Constitution..."

The platform, which specifies some of the federal government's
unconstitutional agencies, including the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
the Department of Energy, the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, the Department of Education, the Department of
Health and Human Services, is at loggerheads with the private
platform of Texas Governor George Bush Jr.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Governor Bush stated
in response to announcement of the correct and patriotically
American platform that, "a platform is a statement of the
delegates of the convention," but said that he runs his own
agenda.

Bush Jr. can be counted on to hold next to his heart the same
agenda held by his father ex-President George Bush Sr. who is
one of the world's busiest global socialists who sees a
"thousand points of light," and "a new world
order emerging."

The Texas Republican Caucus read the book by Dr. Gene Schroder,
"Constitution: Fact or Fiction" where
compelling evidence indicates that the U.S. has been in a
declared state of emergency since 1934 that has never been
rescinded, and that it is through the Emergency War Powers Act
that each successive president since FDR has ruled this country
by executive order. After reading the book, the 1994 Texas
Rebulicans publicly called for the immediate suspension of the
Emergency War Powers and a return to our peacetime
Constitutional Republic.

The comprehensive platform mirrors all of the hopes and dreams
of the educated conservatives and patriots in what remains of
our once free nation. It calls for the abolition of the Federal
Reserve and a return to the gold standard, abolishing the IRS
and all federal income taxes in favor of a national sales tax
(although The IO believes that all taxes may be removed if we
charged tariffs and duties on imported goods).

The platform recognizes that federal judges have criminally
abused their authority and that all of them who are guilty of
criminal offenses should be impeached. The platform calls for
the elimination of "presidential authority and other
administrative mandates that do not have congressional
approval."

The Texas Republicans also ventured into the tortured, special
interest-driven, American sovereignty- usurping realm of foreign
policy with its platform "statement," as Governor Bush
flippantly called it.

The platform calls for the immediate withdrawal of the U.S. from
the United Nations, the repeal of the NAFTA and GATT "free
trade" agreements and the suspension of all U.S. donations
to the International Monetary Fund. The platform opposes the
creation of an international criminal court and military
alliances such as NATO.

The Texas Republicans even had the conviction necessary for a
political body to support "a thorough investigation , to be
conducted by an independent investigator appointed by the U.S.
House of Representatives, to determine whether the Council on
Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission are promoting
the establishment of a one-world government to the detriment of
U.S. interests and sovereignty."

Although the Texas Party platform says all of the right things
and has accurately identified many of the forces and entities
that have worked in concert to imprison the land of the free, we
have yet to see if the platform and the people who resolved to
make it public have given the platform any teeth.

As made obvious by the comments of Governor Bush, he is not in
support of a Republican Party platform that would intend to fix
the things that are killing America. However, the Texas
Republican Caucus has adopted a new rule that, if their party
platform does have any teeth, Governor Bush will not receive his
party's nomination for another run at governor.

The new Republican GOP rule demands that, "any candidate
running as a Republican...in the State of Texas, shall be
provided a Texas Republican Party Platform Questionaire, upon
which each candidate may indicate for each plank item whether
the candidate agrees, disagrees, or is undecided..."

The Idaho Observer will report what Governor Bush's
responses were to the questionaire as soon as they are made
availble. The governor's responses, and what the Texas
Republicans decide to do about them, will be very
interesting--if not precedent setting.

With thanks to the New American magazine which provided
the article in its July 20, 1998 edition, from which this
article was written.